Tim de Lisle

Tim de Lisle is a member of the Guardian's over-by-over cricket team and a former feature writer for G2. He edited Wisden 2003 and Intelligent Life magazine 2008-15, and has won two Editor of the Year awards from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He is the pop critic of The Mail on Sunday and the author of How to Write Well

It’s 50 years since Paul McCartney came up with Hey Jude while driving from London to Surrey – and made a song that’s sung everywhere from football terraces to Oxford colleges. Here’s the story of how it came to be